And frankly I wouldn't care if an Australian designed this eye-catching, innovative, multi-purpose building which also includes cinemas, smaller galleries and museums and with restaurants and bars along the harbour side.

If we have an international competition (and we should) and someone of the foreign persuasion comes up with the?

We've just returned from a trip to Porto, and spent a good 4 hours or so at the Casa de Musica (designed by the Dutch architect Rem Kolhaas) there, without even seeing a concert (which we also would have done if we hadn't had?

A gallery would be wonderful, but I fear our chances are slim given that the Auckland City Art Gallery is being?

Hmm, I saw that the other day and with it's block lettering, menacing and impenetrable facade etc i could?

Oh my god. Tomorrow is September 1. It's Beatles Month!

Not my kind of architecture, but let's hear what others have to say.

Took photos over the weekend. I think it immediately grabs your attention although on closer study found certain detail to be clumsy and unnecessary. The upper office suites being clad in iron did give the idea of?

I'm still disturbed by the way this super city notion seems (from a?

My city would have a long-running, multi-culti, Pacific rim arts festival where musicians and artists from Okinawa and the Solomons would be exhibiting and working alongside our own people and those from South America, Hawaii, Oregon and Alaska.

Hundreds then thousands would come to an arts festival like that, just?

And even if you dislike the guy he actually cracked some interesting but ignored albums. I?ve only covered McCartney in the Seventies and the Eighties so far, the Nineties come next week.

In those great music dicotomies that anoraks like – "you can love John or Paul, but not both"?

"you can love John or Paul, but not both"

I'm playing the arse card on the anoraks, because I have enough love for all members of the Beatles *and* Elvis, even in his white flared jumpsuit period.

(I have slightly less love for the Stones, but I do like them.)

And I'm gonna argue with you about the 10m Revolution too, I think Take 20, as it's called is rather special, and may be the definitive version, especially as it ties all?

I simply never understood why it [Wild Life] was received the way it was

Because what you want from McCartney is great songs and there's only one proper McCartney-type song – Some People Never Know – in the first two thirds of the album (with 2 more at the end).?

Because what you want from McCartney is great songs

I think that he signalled that it wasn't always going to be that way from now on when he released his first solo album.

I've always thought that the critical savaging of Wildlife was one of the reason he retreated to?

I think that he signalled that it wasn't always going to be that way from now on when he released his first solo album.

Absolutely, but that ain't gonna change what the people want.

No way of proving this, just a suspicion.

Personally I'm not a fan of his rockers. They sound unconvincing to my ear, like the Osmonds' "Crazy Horses".

Sacrilege, I know.

But his mid tempo tunes...unbeatable.

I was?

the Osmonds' "Crazy Horses"

That song is a hot mess, but in a wonderful way. I laugh out loud whenever I hear it.

That song is a hot mess, but in a wonderful way. I laugh out loud whenever I hear it.

I have an identical reaction, and the song features on my personal 'The Good the Bad and the Downright Cheesy' collection.

But they're not trying to be funny.

the Osmonds' "Crazy Horses"

That song is a hot mess, but in a wonderful way. I laugh out loud whenever I hear it.

Have you heard the cover version by 'The Mission'?

Turns out old-school '80's Goths have a sense of humour after all. Who knew?

Gotta say, I'm not entirely blown away. Both mono and stereo suffer from EQing. In all cases?